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April 17, 2012
A girl walks through a giant eggs installation in central Moscow during the Easter Eggs Festival.
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Olympic officials and the media admire a large set of Olympic Rings, created with at least 20,000 flowers and plants at Kew Gardens in London. The event at Kew gardens was been held to mark 100 days to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27 and to announce the official motto of the London Olympics as "Inspire a generation."
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April 18, 2012
Tourists take photographs of the London 2012 Olympic countdown clock showing 100 days to go in Trafalgar Square.
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April 17, 2012
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, left, puts on his suit as arrives for a court appearance at a federal building in San Francisco. Oracle intends to rely heavily on Google's own internal e-mails to prove Google's top executives knew they were stealing a popular piece of technology to build the Android software that now powers more than 300 million smartphones and tablet computers.
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April 17, 2012
Palestinians stand facing a wall after being arrested by Israeli soldiers during clashes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron after a Palestinian man, Marwan Buran, was seriously injured when Jewish settlers beat him up at his home. Tensions are high in Hebron, the biggest city in the Palestinian territories, between the 190,000 Palestinian inhabitants and some 600 Jewish settlers living in an enclave in the heart of the city.
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April 17, 2012
SPLA (South Sudan People's Liberation Army) vehicles drive on the road from Bentiu to Heglig. A Sudanese plane bombed Bentiu, capital of South Sudan's oil-rich border state of Unity, on April 14, killing five civilians and wounding six, a local government spokesman said. Gideon Gatfan, spokesman of the Unity state government, said one bomb fell beside a car market near a bridge which was the target of the raid. The SPLA controls both the town of Heglig and the Heglig oilfields.
Adriane Ohanesian
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April 17, 2012
A dead soldier from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) lays in waters outside of the town of Heglig, in Sudan.
Adriane Ohanesian
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April 17, 2012
President of French far-right party Front national (FN) and candidate for the 2012 French presidential election Marine Le Pen gives a speech during a campaign meeting in Paris.
Martin Bureau
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April 17, 2012
Kuwaiti firefighters from the national guard, the army and the oil sector joined efforts to contain a massive fire in a dump of more than 5 million used tires in Kuwait city . A number of Members of Parliament described the fire as an "environmental catastrophe" and vowed to demand a debate on the issue in a special parliamentary session.
Yasser al-Zayyat
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April 17, 2012
Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, center, reacts as he is welcomed in his village of Arraba, in the West Bank, near Jenin. Adnan was released after being detained in an Israeli jail without a trial. The procedure allows a military court to order a detainee to be held for up to six months at a time without trial or even revealing the evidence against them. The decision can be appealed and an order can only be renewed by the court.
Saif Dahlah
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April 17, 2012
France's president and UMP ruling party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy, leaves after his visit at a boat company prior a campaign meeting in Carantec, western France.
Eric Feferberg
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April 17, 2012
Palestinian refugees pose as Israeli soldiers arresting and beating a Palestinian activist during celebrations of Prisoners' Day at the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh near the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon in solidarity with the 4,700 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails. Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food for one day, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) said.
Mahmoud Zayyat
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April 17, 2012
A man watches artwork in the shape of a disco skull by French artist Bruno Peinado at an art fair in Cologne, Germany.
Martin Meissner
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April 17, 2012
A visitor takes photos of two new species of frogs found in Southern Leyte province, during its unveiling ceremony in Manila. Two new forest frog species have been discovered by scientists who surveyed a severely degraded forest in the central Philippine island of Leyte in November 2011.
Ted Aljibe
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April 17, 2012
An Afghan boy pretends to box at a graveyard in the city of Kabul . Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country.
Johannes Eisele
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April 17, 2012
Bayern Munich's French midfielder Franck Ribery, front, and Bayern Munich's midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrate after Ribery scored during the UEFA Champions League first-leg semifinal soccer match Bayern Muenchen vs. Real Madrid in Munich.
Christof Stache
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April 17, 2012
France's Socialist Party (PS) candidate for the 2012 French presidential election Francois Hollande waves to the crowd during a campaign meeting in the French northern city of Lille. French presidential front-runner Francois Hollande was to hold a campaign rally Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, as influential supporters began to fall in behind him.
Philippe Huguen
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April 17, 2012
A photographer gets down low for a shot of the Space Shuttle Discovery after its final landing on the back of a NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), at Dulles International Airport. The shuttle is on its way to its new permanent display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.
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April 17, 2012
Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, left, speaks with his lawyer Geir Lippestad in room 250 of the central court in Oslo during the second day of his trial. Breivik launched into his testimony, as he seeks to explain why he killed 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last July. Five and a half days have been allotted to Breivik's testimony, and many fear he will try to promote his Islamophobic ideology, which he claims justifies the "cruel but necessary" attacks.
Lise Aserud
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April 17, 2012
Head of Historic Carving Alan Lamb, poses next to the royal cypher that will decorate the Royal Barge in which Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will travel along the River Thames during the diamond jubilee river pageant in June, at the City and Guilds of London Art School in London. British artisans at City and Guilds of London Art School are making a two-tonne sculpture, including images of Old Father Thames and classical dolphins, gilded with gold leaf, to contribute to transforming the Spirit of Chartwell into the Royal Barge for the diamond jubilee river pageant.
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